**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in
crisis. 'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South
African family living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral.
The younger generation Anton and Amor detest everything the family stand for - not least the
failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of
service Salome was promised her own house her own land... yet somehow as each decade passes
that promise remains unfulfilled. The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between
characters flying into their dreams deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country
moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society the lost promise of more
than just one family hovers behind the novel's title. In this story of a diminished family
sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident deft and quietly powerful The Promise
is literary fiction at its finest. 'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley 'The most important
book of the last ten years' Edmund White 'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud
